The Transformers: Stormbringer

This article is about the IDW mini-series. For the Generation 1 Decepticon, see Stormbringer (G1).

The Transformers: Stormbringer is a companion limited series to IDW Publishing's main series of G1-reboot story arcs. Set roughly during the same period of time as the Infiltration arc, it establishes the situation of Cybertron and the rest of the Autobots and Decepticons not on Earth.

Stormbringer issues:
#1 | #2 | #3 | #4

Overview

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The reader learns almost immediately that the rebooted G1 universe features some radical differences from original continuity, the first being that in the present time, Cybertron is a dead, wasted world, victim of some distant cataclysm that elder Transformers, including Optimus Prime and Megatron, were present at. Prime's musings establish that the long war between the Autobots and Decepticons was directly responsible for the cataclysm, and in flashback we discover that a single demonic figure was somehow the focus for or avatar of the event; this being was so powerful that only the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons could stop it.

We also discover that both Autobots and Decepticons appear to have large, star-spanning empires. Similar Decepticon infiltration cells to the one portrayed in Infiltration are seen on the planets Nebulos and Varas Centralus. The Autobots' main base is a space station orbiting a planet at least nineteen megacycles away from Cybertron via foldspace travel, and they possess at least one space battlecruiser, the Xantium.

Creative team

Stormbringer was scripted by Transformer veteran Simon Furman and penciled by Don Figueroa—the pair also worked together on Dreamwave Productions' The War Within and IDW's Beast Wars: The Gathering. Stormbringer is followed by The Transformers: Escalation.

Collections

• Stormbringer TPB (2007) ISBN 978-1600100185

Bonus material includes images of each cover and concept art of many characters, several of which would not appear in the story.

• Stormbringer Manga TPB (B&W small format) (2007) ISBN 978-160010042-0
  
  
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